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With the holidays past, this weekend is a big one for art events. One of the most interesting programs is at the Brooklyn Museum, where Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems will hold a public conversation with Brooklyn curator Eugenie Tsai.
A major retrospective of Weems’ work is at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville through Jan. 13, at which point it will travel around the country. “Origin of the Universe,” a survey exhibition of Mickalene Thomas’s work, is at the Brooklyn Museum through Jan. 20. It’s an expanded version of the show that debuted at the Santa Monica Museum of Art this past summer. Don’t miss Roberta Smith’s smart NYT review of the Brooklyn show.
Thomas was the lead guest on Episode No. 30 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. We discussed her art, her interest in art history and how her relationship with her mother has fed her work. If you’re interested in the art and themes in the Brooklyn show, you’ll love the podcast. Weems was the top guest on Episode No. 47, which is here.
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Image: Mickalene Thomas by Philip Montgomery for the Wall Street Journal.
“Origin of the Universe,” a survey exhibition of Mickalene Thomas’s work, just opened at the Brooklyn Museum. It’s an expanded version of the show that debuted at the Santa Monica Museum of Art this past summer. Don’t miss Roberta Smith’s smart NYT review of the Brooklyn show.
Mickalene Thomas was the lead guest on Episode No. 30 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. We discussed her art, her interest in art history and how her relationship with her mother has fed her work. If you’re interested in the art and themes in the Brooklyn show, you’ll love the podcast.
(Bonus! The photo of Thomas above provides a neat tie-in to this week’s MAN Podcast, which features Carrie Mae Weems. Thomas’s t-shirt — click here to see the large version of the picture and then scroll down a bit — puts Thomas and artists of her generation, including Kara (Walker) and Wangechi (Mutu) in the context of the previous generation of black women artists, including Lorna (Simpson) and Weems.)
Download the MAN Podcast featuring Thomas to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe on iTunes or via RSS. See images of artworks Thomas and I discussed on the show.
Image: Mickalene Thomas by Philip Montgomery for the Wall Street Journal.
The Brooklyn Museum recently announced that it will expand the exhibition “Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,” which is on view now at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. As Brooklyn put it: “Seventy-five of the ninety featured works [will be] added for the Brooklyn presentation.” The Brooklyn presentation opens on September 28.
Thomas was the lead guest on Episode No. 30 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. We discussed her art, her interest in art history and how her relationship with her mother has fed her work.
Download the MAN Podcast featuring Thomas to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe on iTunes or via RSS. See images of artworks Thomas and I discussed on the show.
Image: Mickalene Thomas, Din, Une Très Belle Négresse #2 (detail), 2012.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas. An exhibition of Thomas’s recent paintings, “Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,” is on view at the Santa Monica Museum of Art through August 19.
The best Thomas in a museum collection may be this painting, A Little Taste Outside of Love (2007) at the Brooklyn Museum. (The above image is a detail; click to expand.) On this week’s MAN Podcast, Thomas and I discuss how she came to be interested in art history, including Ingres, whose Grand Odalisque informed A Little Taste.
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